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27-703: Like the other Hungarian parties in Czechoslovakia at the time, the Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party opposed the very existence of the Czechoslovak Republic. Leaders of the party included Sam Mayer, Gyula Nagy (between 1919 and 1922), Géza Borovszky (from 1922 onwards) and Jószef Földessy. The party congress held January 18, 1920 resolved that the party would contest the 1920 Czechoslovak National Assembly election independently. The party contested

54-634: A stalemate , since the centre-right parties plus the Green Party and the centre-left parties each had exactly 100 seats. The stalemate was broken when two ČSSD deputies, Miloš Melčák and Michal Pohanka , abstained during a vote of confidence , allowing a coalition of the Civic Democrats (ODS), the KDU-ČSL, and the Green Party to form a government, while the ČSSD went into opposition. At

81-654: A coalition with two small centre-right parties, the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU–ČSL) and the Freedom Union – Democratic Union (US-DEU) until he was forced to resign in 2004 after the ČSSD lost in the 2004 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic . The next leader was Stanislav Gross , serving as leader from 26 June 2004 to 26 April 2005 and as prime minister from 4 August 2004 to 25 April 2005. He resigned after

108-534: A minority government under its leader Miloš Zeman . With only 74 seats out of 200, the government had confidence and supply from the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), under the so-called Opposition Agreement . At the 2002 Czech legislative election , the party gained 70 of the 200 seats in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic . Its leader Vladimír Špidla became prime minister , heading

135-572: A proposal by F. Pfifferling to adhere to the Communist International . Népszava and Volksstimme became pro-communist organs. Wittich, who had denounced the Hungarian Soviet Republic at the meeting, was deposed from his leadership position. A party congress was convened on September 24, 1920, at which the old leadership (Wittich, Mayer and August Masár) was expelled. The Marxist grouping eventually merged with

162-432: A scandal when he was unable to explain the source of money used to buy his house. The successor of Gross as prime minister was Jiří Paroubek , while Bohuslav Sobotka became acting party leader from 26 April 2005 to 13 May 2006. Paroubek was then elected as the new party leader in the run-up to the 2006 Czech legislative election , at which the party won 32.3% of the vote and 74 out of 200 seats. The election at first caused

189-678: Is a member of the Party of European Socialists , the Socialist International , and the Progressive Alliance . Masaryk Democratic Academy is the party-affiliated's think tank . The ČSSD was a junior coalition party within Andrej Babiš' Second Cabinet 's minority government from June 2018, and was a senior coalition party from 1998 to 2006 and from 2013 to 2017. It held 15 seats in the Chamber of Deputies of

216-450: The 2010 Czech legislative election , the ČSSD gained 22.08% of the vote but remained the largest party, with 56 seats. Failing to form a governing coalition, it remained in opposition to a government coalition of the ODS, conservative TOP 09 and conservative-liberal Public Affairs parties. Paroubek resigned as leader on 7 June and was succeeded by Sobotka. It remained the largest party after

243-463: The 2013 Czech legislative election , and in December of the same year formed a governing coalition with the populist ANO 2011 and the centrist Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party . The leader of ČSSD, Bohuslav Sobotka, became the new Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. The party suffered heavy losses in the 2017 Czech legislative election and was reduced to 15 seats,

270-749: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia gained a parliamentary majority, the Czech Social Democratic Party was incorporated into the Communist Party. At the time of the Prague Spring , a reformist movement in 1968, there were talks about allowing the recreation of a social democratic party, but Soviet intervention put an end to such ideas. It was only after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that the party

297-670: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . The social democratic minority re-organized themselves. In October 1920, they launched new newspapers in German ( Volksrecht ) and Hungarian. On November 20, 1920, a German Social Democratic Party was formed (led by Wittich, Mayer and Masár), and on December 4, 1920 the small group of Hungarian social democrats that hadn't joined the communists formed the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. The Hungarian-German party thus consisted of two national sections. However, starting from

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324-496: The 1911 result. Czech Social Democratic Party Social Democracy ( Czech : Sociální demokracie , SOCDEM ), known as the Czech Social Democratic Party (Czech: Česká strana sociálně demokratická , ČSSD ) until 10 June 2023, is a social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic . Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum and holding pro-European views, it

351-694: The 300 Chamber of Deputies seats 281 were unfilled as elections were not held in Hlučín Region (part of the Moravská Ostrava electoral district, resulting in one less deputy being elected from that district), the Těšín electoral district (nine deputies) and the Užhorod electoral district (nine deputies). 16 parties won parliamentary representation. Voter turnout was 90% for the Chamber election and 76% for

378-875: The Chamber of Deputies election in the Nové Zámky 16th electoral district and the Košice 20th electoral district. However, the party contested the Senate election on a joint list with the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party. The election campaign was initiated in March 1920. On March 16, 1920 a brief general strike was organized in Bratislava, to support socialist demands after the elections. Banners with slogans like "Death to profiteers" and "Long live communism" were put up in

405-508: The Czech Republic following the 2017 Czech legislative election in which the party lost 35 seats. From 2018 to 2021, the party was led by Jan Hamáček , who has since been replaced by Michal Šmarda as leader after the 2021 Czech legislative election , in which the party lost all of its seats after falling below 5%. The Social Democratic Czechoslavonic party in Austria ( Czech : Sociálně Demokratická strana Českoslovanská v Rakousku )

432-560: The Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party, becoming a Hungarian section of the Czechoslovak party. 1920 Czechoslovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 18 and 25 April 1920. Members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected on 18 April and members of the Senate on 25 April. The elections had initially been planned for mid- or late 1919, but had been postponed. 281 of

459-521: The Senate. The Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (ČSDSD) emerged as the largest party in the 1920 election, with 26% of the vote and 74 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 28% of the vote and 41 seats in the Senate and 41 senators elected. Amongst the Czech voters, the 1920 election outcome was marked by remarkable stability compared to the 1911 election . The gap between Czech socialist and bourgeois parties had only moved by 0.4% compared to

486-482: The chairman of the parliamentary faction of the party. The three other parliamentarians of the party were Samuel Mayer, Dr. Jószef Földessy and Gyula Nagy. Wittich, Mayer and Nagy were elected from Bratislava, whilst Földessy was elected from Komárno . The party also won two seats in the Czechoslovak Senate from Bratislava, represented by Matthias Kreppenhofer and Antal Svrak. The Hungarian section of

513-626: The city. The party got 1.8% of the votes in Czechoslovakia. The main stronghold of the party was the Nové Zámky electoral district (which included Bratislava). In the Nové Zámky constituency, the party won 35.7% of the National Assembly vote. It mustered 110,282 votes in the constituency, winning four seat in the National Assembly. Paul Wittich , who had been the chairman of the Pressburg Workers Council, became

540-470: The collapse of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I , the party became one of the leading parties of the first Czechoslovak Republic . Its members were split over whether to join the Comintern , which in 1921 resulted in the fracturing of the party, with a large part of its membership then forming the new Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . During the occupation of the Czech lands by Nazi Germany ,

567-552: The end of 1920 members of the German section of the party began defecting to the German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP). The two German parliamentarians, Wittich and Mayer, were amongst those who left the party in late 1920. As of 1926 the German section had been completely absorbed by DSAP. On January 1, 1927 the Hungarian remainder of the party merged into

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594-480: The party published a weekly newspaper, Népszava ('People's Voice'), whilst the German organ was Volksstimme ('People's Voice'). The party was affiliated to the Labour and Socialist International between 1923 and 1926. The socialist movement in Bratislava was radicalized, as Hungarian revolutionaries settled in Czechoslovakia in large numbers. A party meeting was held on July 11 and 18, 1920. The meeting approved

621-550: The party was officially abolished, but its members organized resistance movements contrary to the laws of the German-controlled Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , both at home and abroad. After the re-establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1945, the party returned to its pre-war structure and became a member of the National Front which formed a new governing coalition. In 1948, after

648-522: The poor performance of the ČSSD in the 2021 Czech legislative election , in which the party failed to meet the 5% voting threshold, Hamáček resigned as leader of the party. Czech lands as part of Austria-Hungary : Czechoslovakia : Czech Republic : In economic matters, the ČSSD party platform is typical of Western European social democratic parties. It supports a mixed economy , a strong welfare state , and progressive taxation . In foreign policy, it supports European integration, including joining

675-1001: The worst result in its history. ČSSD suffered another defeat in the Prague Municipal, local and Senate elections in 2018. ČSSD lost 12 senators (only one managed to win re-election), all Prague deputies and more than half of their local councillors. In 2019 ČSSD lost all their representatives in the European Parliament. Some political commentators have interpreted the string of poor results as a sign of ČSSD losing their position in national politics. ČSSD suffered another defeat in 2020 Regional Elections and Senate elections, when they lost 10 senators (none re-elected) and 97 regional deputies. From 2018 to 2021, ČSSD had Jan Hamáček as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Jana Maláčová as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Lubomír Zaorálek as Minister of Culture, and Miroslav Toman as Minister of Agriculture. After

702-788: Was a political group founded on 7 April 1878 in Austria-Hungary as a regional wing of the Social Democratic Party of Austria . Founded in Břevnov atop earlier social democratic initiatives, such as the Ouls , it represented much of the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Austrian parliament, and its significant role in the political life of the empire was one of the factors that led to the creation of an independent Czechoslovakia. After

729-432: Was recreated. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia , which came into effect on 1 January 1993, the ČSSD has been one of the major political parties of the Czech Republic, and until October 2017 was always one of the two parties with the largest number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies. At the 1998 Czech legislative election , the party won the largest number of seats but failed to form a coalition government, so formed

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